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Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme
Eerola, Essi; Lyytikäinen, Teemu
VATT Working Papers : 88 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.05.2017)This paper studies the effect of housing allowance on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi-experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the floor area of ... -
On the role of public price information in housing markets
Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Eerola, Essi
VATT Working Papers : 30 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 23.04.2012)This paper studies the impact of increased price information on the functioning of the housing market. We first study the implications of new information for market outcomes in a theoretical framework so as to disentangle ... -
The optimal tax treatment of housing capital in the neoclassical growth model
Eerola, Essi; Määttänen, Niku
VATT Working Papers : 3 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 30.03.2009)In a dynamic setting, housing capital is both an asset and a consumption good. But should it be taxed like other forms of consumption or like other forms of capital? We analyze this question by considering the taxation of ... -
Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Eerola, Essi; Kosonen, Tuomas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Tuimala, Jarno
VATT Working Papers : 122 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 03.10.2019)We study rental income tax compliance using a large-scale randomized fild experiment and register data with third-party information on the ownership of apartments. We analyze the responses of potential landlords to treatment ... -
The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland's LTV reform
Eerola, Essi; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Ramboer, Sander
VATT Working Papers : 148 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 12.10.2022)This paper examines the impact of a limit on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios implemented in Finland in 2016. Focusing on households that buy an apartment for the first time, we evaluate how the regulation influenced household ... -
The Incidence of Housing Allowances: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Eerola, Essi; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Vanhapelto, Tuuli
VATT Working Papers : 149 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 13.10.2022)This paper studies the effects of housing allowances on rents. Our research design is based on a reform that made the allowance more generous for small housing units as a quasi-experimental setting. We find that large ... -
Who Benefits from Public Housing?
Eerola, Essi; Saarimaa, Tuukka
VATT Working Papers : 68 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.12.2015)This paper studies how much public housing generates rent savings for the tenants, how these savings are distributed among the tenants, and whether the tenants reside in better quality neighborhoods than similar low-income ...